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单词 chicote
释义 chicote|tʃiːˈkəʊteɪ|
Also chicotte.
[Sp., = rope's end.]
A long whip of leather or hide, having a wooden handle, used in the Congo, Portuguese Africa, and elsewhere.
1903Daily Chron. 10 July 6/5 The fearful whip made of hippopotamus hide, and called the chicotte, and with which the natives in all parts of the Congo are so familiar.1906Nevinson Mod. Slavery iii. 55 Her back scored all over with the cut of the chicote.1928Daily Express 28 Nov. 9 Corporal punishment, or ‘chicotte’, now exists only in the Congo army.
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